EBD TV: episode 1: Random Hacks of Kindness Fuels Pop Up Burlington

This is my first experiment with a webisode. I’d like to develop a weekly “show” <EBD TV> where I interview via skype or visit innovators in person and find out what they’re up to. I’m already doing this anyway, traveling around the country almost weekly. I might as well be recording it so others might get inspired too.

In 2004, one of the ways this was deployed was the Friends of Beslan initiative in which rather than focus on anonymous charitable assistance the emphasis was on using a database to match those wishing to act in compassion to engage directly in the spirit of international friendship and peace.

Inspiring project; and nice dense conversation with substantive action focus. Little more “in person” and “on the ground” would be excellent too…and of course a regular spate of infographics 🙂

As far as taking this project toward an “awareness design” mode, maybe look at structuring some themes that will connect across episodes (and media/channels, for that matter). You could take advantage of YouTube’s annotation features and granularly link related segments or supporting material with a pop-up button to send viewers to a particular timecode in another video.

One set of helpful general categories might be this acronymic from Michael Maranda @tropology: Stories, Conversations, Organizations, People, Events–SCOPE …could even chunk up the episodes into a short bit under each of those headings.